New season of anime *updated*

The chart with the anime in the new anime season has been updated. Now with more release dates and sorted on release date for your pleasure. Hope it helps with your selection. Most of the interesting titles start airing from 1 October on. Also the Lucky star OVA will be released on the 26th of September. Also something to forward to ;)



Found via 4chan/a/

New Gundam:00 game

2 PV's have been released for the upcoming gundam:00 game. It will be released for the PS2(which means I will be able to play it), on October 16th. The battle system is somewhat different from the previous Gundam games. Button press timing moments have been added and it looks much faster than the previous games. If the gameplay is good this will be my favorite medium of Gundam 00 as the anime was somewhat disappointing.

Pantsu Shots

You know pantyshot moments are not very rare in anime. Depending on the genre you usually get at least a few in a series. So far so good for the anime realm. Now it seems panty shots also appear on the news, or the weather program to be exact. It seems that typhoons and weather news can provide some interesting shots.

Link via dannychoo

Kagi Nochi Tobira

I have come across a different game this time. Kagi Nochi Tobira is no action platform but more of a puzzle game. You need to find a key and the door. With just 20 levels it's less time consuming than Dot Action

play it here

Nicodouga

I'm planning to post some nicodouga link on this blog. Nicodouga is a japanese video streaming site like youtube only more interesting content. Only problem is you have to register to view videos. The problem is that google analytics shows most readers of this blog are not proficient in japanese enough to get around nicodouga or even register. But I found a solution to that.
guide 1
guide 2
These guides should help with registering. But too be able to fully use the features of nicodouga you need to know some Japanese.
I'll start out with a video showing how an artist drew Hatsune Miku。



glhf~

Comiket special

Once in every 5 years a Comiket Special is held. The next one is in 2010 and they are searching for a town to host the event and attract visitors to the town. I guess they aren't looking for a town outside japan. Else I would rally for somewhere near where I live...

news via zepy

Being creative with sticky notes

You feel bored and have some sticky notes around?
Then here is something to relieve your boredom.

Lucky Star Festival

We all know that the locations of the lucky star anime are based on real locations. Washinomiya shrine, the shrine where the shrine in Lucky Star was based on was already being visited by many fans of Lucky Star. Now they have held a festival at the shrine. A Lucky Star portable shrine was carried around by 120 fans. I guess the Lucky Star chars have become gods.

more info here

Ero game business model

After the post about the anime business model. Zepy now made a post where he translated an article about the ero game industry. That is a lot of copies before a company breaks even.

link here

New anime season

A new anime season is starting soon. It got some great titles amongst it. Already know what you are going to watch? Here's a chart with some images.

Not sure what I'm going to watch. There are some second seasons like Gundam 00 s2, Rosario x Vampire capu 2 and Clannad After Story. Also some promising manga/light novel adaptations like Tora Dora, Kemeko DX and Kannagi. One sure watch is TV adaptation of Kyou no 5 no 2. There are still more interesting titles out there. Guess I will have to look at the first eps before I can decide.

Dot Action 2

great music, great pixel graphics, lots of levels, what else do you need.
http://offgao.no-ip.org/game/dotact2/
try it if you got some time to spend.
I got stuck/annoyed at stage 41

Typing Mania 4

Remember Typing Mania? A while ago the Typing Mania 4 was released. Looks like someone set it up with some anime songs. Easy mode is doable. Normal is quite a challenge. Didn't tried hard or nightmare. It also has a different romanisation as in shi->si and tsu->tu.

Go here to play.

Found via dc

Good Smile Company english website

Good Smile Company, well known for the high quality figures it produce, has launched a new english website. I must say it looks great and with the large images, it is great for deciding what figure to get when the amount of money you got is limited. The next step would be user reviews and overseas ordering facilities. For people that know dannychoo.com it will look familiar as it is running on Mirai Gaia the platform created by Danny Choo.

more information on the site here

next MG gundam

It was confirmed a while ago, the Infinite Justice from Seed Destiny is the next MG model. Releasing in October Hobbysearch has it already for preorder. It looks nice, though it does not have as much features as the Strike Freedom to play with. It would stand nice next to my Strike Freedom.
mmm i'm tempted...

The anime business model

Zepy made a nice post about the anime industry.

Knew production of anime isn't cheap but not that expensive. It does explain the high prices for anime DVDs in Japan though. Makes me wonder how much pizza hut paid for the in-anime ads in Code Geass